11 floor plans that say "Let's Watch the Game at Our Place"
Custom homes in Raleigh NC
Want everybody to gather at your place for the big game?
Design your floor plan to fit your fantasy football crowd. Here are 11 designs with wide open floor plans, leveraged for entertainment.
Floor Plan Idea #1: Second story game room
Give your guests more options, with a Game Room that’s got Big Screen space – as well as a Great Room designed for lots of interaction.
The Harwood floor plan, a 5200 sq ft design by Alan Mascord, features a second floor game room with private staricase.
The Harwood game room is designed for game day gatherings, with:
- A floor plan designed for a TV wall and plenty of seating space
- A wet bar with sink and refrigerator
- Private secondary staricase
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Floor Plan Idea #2: Kitchen Island with Bar
Do it big, in this 4700 sq ft plan with an open layout with no interference to everything you want to do.
This floor plan idea features a family room in reach of the curved kitchen island with serving bar.
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Floor Plan Idea #3: Three story floor plan
This 4500 sq ft plan is designed for outside stretches – with front and rear porches that accommodate wide receivers.
Inside, the High Country Farmhouse by Max Fulbright offers three opportunities for a game day room:
- First floor family room
- Second floor bonus room
- Basement game room and recreation room
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Floor Plan Idea #4: Open Great Room
This 4200 sq ft home spotlights the game in a Great Room that takes center stage – and grabs attention.
Spread out in the Marlow, an Alan Mascord design.
The Marlow features:
- A 19x21 great room
- Kitchen seating bar
- Arched entrances and an open, inviting design
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Floor Plan Idea #5: Oversized Great Room with Built-In Wide Screen TV Center
The Peay, a Stanton Homes design, features an oversized 14x30 great room.
This 3500 sq ft home also has a two story foyer overlook to the great room and an open island kitchen.
The Peay, a version of the Dugan, is one of the most requested new custom homes in Raleigh designed by Stanton Homes:
This custom designed home features a full wall of storage with a built-in wide screen TV center.
The TV location was designed for universal visibility - from the kitchen, dining, and great room.
Enjoy a game day with tons of good food set out on the wrap-around serving bar.
Floor Plan Idea #6: Two Story Great Room Open to Kitchen
The Treehouse, a Stanton Homes custom design, is a mountain house plan designed to fit a wooded hillside lot.
Two features were designed to make this Raleigh home game day ready:
First, The kitchen island was rotated to face the two story great room - so the sous chefs will never miss out on the action.
2. The great room entertainment center was custom designed and hand-built to incorporate a wide screen TV center with storage shelving below.
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Floor Plan Idea #7: Four Game Rooms
The Mastrosimone, another custom Stanton Homes floor plan design, offers your pick of four game rooms to choose from on game day:
Game Day Room One: first floor great room
Game Day Room Two: first floor keeping room
Game Day Room Three: second story game room
Game Day Room Four: second story bonus room
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Floor Plan Idea #8: Basement Game Room
Custom homes in Raleigh NC with a basement floor plan are highly requested, but difficult to find unless you build a custom home especially designed to fit your lifestyle and your lot.
The Penelope, a Stanton Homes custom design, includes a walk-out basement with "man cave" game room.
Learn more about basement home constuction in the Raleigh area
You'll feel like a winner in any of these Raleigh floor plans with a basement game room:
The Summerlyn - full basement custom home
The Treehouse - Walk-out basement with game room
The Country Manor - basement with game room
Floor Plan Idea #9: Open family room
The Maple Lane leverages a classic floor plan layout, with the kitchen, breakfast, and family room all close at hand.
This version of the Maple Lane leaves a large wall open for an entertainment center separate from the fireplace wall.
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Floor Plan Idea #10: How to rearrange a floor plan
In this version of the Remington, a design by Living Concepts by Frank Snodgrass, the homeowners added a few custom modifications.
Stanton Homes was able to re-arrange the floor plan to accomodate game day festivities:
The keeping room fireplace was moved into the breakfast room - opening up space for a wide screen TV wall instead.
And the island was converted and rotated, to allow bar seating in view of the TV wall.
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Here is the modified Remington with island kitchen and keeping room
This kitchen is a perfect game day setting, with:
- Island seating bar
- Wine and beer frige
- Built-in TV center
- Vaulted, angled keeping room, fit for a game table
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Floor Plan Idea #11: Two islands
The Cannon, one of Stanton Homes' newest and most requested custom home plans in Raleigh NC, is a wide open floor plan designed for friends and family to interact, especially on game days.
The Cannon is 2,971 sq ft with four bedrooms and three and a half baths.
There are two great locations for a TV entertainment center in this floor plan: the nook wall and the great room wall. Each location is large and open.
The second story "play room" could also act as a more private bonus or game room.
In this version of the Cannon, the homeowners chose to include a second island in the kitchen.
The second island added:
- A full height seating bar for serving drinks and appetizers
- Built-in storage cubbies on both ends
- Almost double the counter space, creating the ability to spread out
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